Coronavirus - UK
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Winger said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
not to mention the political cost.
Sadly too many of the population seem to want a firm nanny state at present. My view is a permanent lock-down (varying in degreee) to save lives would be embraced and applauded by enough to offset a declining economy as small businesses go under. And removal of our basic human rights
Judging from the vibe during this current lockdown and looking at evidence such as number of vehicles on the road compared to lockdown 1, I would say you couldn’t be further from the truth.
There are groups withing each camp who would love it.
The rest of us are just getting on with life.
Undoubtedly. @Winger though was suggesting enough people would embrace a continual lockdown policy. I do not see any evidence to support that.
Scary part is tho if you chose your media and Twitter poorly to get your views, you could easily come up this theory.
Either that or I’m incredibly wrong.
Which is the real conspiracy?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Horton was the bloke who berated the government for not locking down earlier but forgot to delete his tweets from early-March 2020 arguing against a lockdown...
He has other form.
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Party time in the Midlands
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@MiketheSnow There was another one recently. Some guys opened a "pub" in some warehouse and called it The Covid Arms
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow There was another one recently. Some guys opened a "pub" in some warehouse and called it The Covid Arms
End of this clip they had Covid Arms on the wall
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@MiketheSnow Ah! Might be the same one but I'm sure I heard of two instances.
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Very sensible article from Auntie: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55985916
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Steps seem reasonably pragmatic to me honestly ....
Having said that, I only really care about getting the kids back to school and it seems like 8th March is more or less locked in. Would be nice to bugger off overseas but mentally I accepted the inability of that months ago ....
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
Steps seem reasonably pragmatic to me honestly ....
Having said that, I only really care about getting the kids back to school and it seems like 8th March is more or less locked in. Would be nice to bugger off overseas but mentally I accepted the inability of that months ago ....
It's quite reasonable, but my gut tells me that Covid hospital bed occupancy and deaths will fall significantly faster than their conservative estimates. By Easter I think there'll be very strong pressure to speed things up by three or four weeks.
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@pakman my gut says the opposite.
British public has little respect for govt directives snd I think mixing mingling will rise exponentially starting right now.
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I’m thinking and hoping a bit of both. I agree that the level of compliance is likely to fall but hope that A) that has been factored in to the thinking and that the dramatic improvement in the figures is down primarily to the vaccines and this provides us with a way out that is not lockdown dependent.
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I don’t see any big changes to be honest and anticipate a National lockdown sometime in October or early November for the winter
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@mikethesnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
I don’t see any big changes to be honest and anticipate a National lockdown sometime in October or early November for the winter
That would be nothing other than an unmitigated disaster after the year we've had and the rapid development and supply of vaccines. All for a virus that hardly affects the majority of the population.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - UK:
@mikethesnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
I don’t see any big changes to be honest and anticipate a National lockdown sometime in October or early November for the winter
That would be nothing other than an unmitigated disaster after the year we've had and the rapid development and supply of vaccines. All for a virus that hardly affects the majority of the population.
Agreed
But that’s what’s being mooted for Wales.
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@mikethesnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
I don’t see any big changes to be honest and anticipate a National lockdown sometime in October or early November for the winter
I'm not ruling it out and Whitty has said as much that there may well be some restrictions next Winter.
But the politics will make it extremely tough to get this through.